President received Working Class Agenda; government sent PL to reduce working hours on Tuesday (April 14)
The president (PT) wore a cap asking for the end of the 6 The government sent the PL to Congress on Tuesday (April 14) to reduce working hours.
At the meeting, unionists handed Lula the Working Class Agenda, with 68 demands. Among them, the end of the 6 X 1 scale, with the reduction to 40 hours per week without salary changes.
Lula sent the PL to Congress as a matter of urgency and without detailing the merits of the proposal. The document amends provisions of the CLT (Consolidation of Labor Laws) and other related legislation. Here’s the (PDF – 2MB).
Now, Congress will have 45 days to vote on the proposal. If this does not happen, the project will lock the Chamber’s voting agenda and prevent the analysis of other matters until the topic is deliberated.
As it is a bill, the text allows for a presidential veto, a hypothesis considered by the government if the content approved by Congress is defaced during processing.
The end of 6 X 1 is treated as a priority agenda for the government and one of the flags for the re-election of the PT member.
At the meeting, Lula criticized the labor reform, sanctioned by the former president (MDB) in 2017. He stated that the changes “they legalized the precariousness of work”.
The president also took a stance against the end of the union tax – which was abolished with the labor reform. Declared: “They did to you what we want to do to organized crime. If we want to end organized crime, we have to suffocate their economy.”
In addition to Lula and Marinho, vice-president Geraldo Alckmin and ministers Guilherme Boulos (General Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic) and José Guimarães (Secretariat of Institutional Relations) participated in the meeting with 36 representatives from trade unions.
WORKING CLASS AGENDA
The Working Class Agenda brings together 68 demands, including historical agendas and recent themes, for the period from 2026 to 2030. Here is the of the text (PDF – 13 MB).
The document includes guidelines such as:
- reduction of working hours without salary reduction;
- end of scale 6 X 1;
- combating pejotization;
- work regulation by application;
- strengthening collective negotiations;
- combating feminicide;
- negotiation rights for public servants.
Regarding the end of the 6
The text was also to the President of the Chamber, (Republicanos-PB), this Wednesday (April 15).
On the same day, the trade unions in Brasília, due to the reduction in working hours.
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